AFL Rd 23 2022 Post Game Postulations Carlton vs Collingwood

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You could probably mount an argument that Teague hampered the development of players like Dow by moving them out of the way and giving their tasks to more experienced players.

The change from youth to experience gave us a short term fix but in the long run it wasn't successful, and probably made it difficult for the young ones to get continuity in their development.

Things like that were road blocks in the rebuild.
It made it a 'stop-start-reset' process that now extends to 7 years without a finals appearance.

There's two ways to view that.

1.  By taking them out of the coalface and thrusting them into the periphery you force them to really motivate and kick on.  Dow has gone from Coalface, to periphery to left right out, and not because Voss doesn't want to play the kids, because he was happy to trust Carroll and Motlop, and forgo more experienced options in those roles.

2.  They stalled because they missed the experience of being in the thick of it.  Walsh was not exactly held back by any of this though so its hard to mount an argument, and if not for Teague's approach, Matt Kennedy may not have kicked on to become one of our best mids.

I don't buy into a coach holding back a whole groups development.  They should be developing anyway, and the coach is there to pull it all together and make a team, a team.